By your logic, the Serbs should have been able to vote to keep Kosovo from gaining independence, and the Muslim Arabs of north Sudan should have had a vote to keep the animist/Christian/Black-African South Sudanese from forming the independent nation of South Sudan. Your view is anti-democratic. (Also, Artsakh/Nagorno-Karabakh should be able to gain independence from Azerbaijan.) https://medium.com/non-violence/a-millennium-of-massacres-azerbaijan-drives-out-armenians-from-artsakh-nagorno-karabakh-6c4f190111e9